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<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> Jesse Keating [mailto:jkeating@redhat.com]<br><b>To:</b> Fedora community advisory board [mailto:advisory-board@lists.fedoraproject.org]<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:36:49 +0000<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Remaining issues for the multi desktop DVD<br><br>On 1/12/11 1:16 PM, David Riches wrote:<br>
> Purely out of curiosity (and my involvement in multiboot-media- <br>
> creator) any chance of specifics where the box would not boot from the <br>
> cd with grub, but would when it was installed?<br>
> <br>
> Our testing with mmc hasn't shown this behavior is all, so I would <br>
> appreciate more info<br>
> <br>
> Thanks in advance<br>
<br>
Hrm, apparently my memory is failing me. Nobody else remembers doing<br>
the grub on a CD test way back when, but they all seem to indicate that<br>
it is a bad idea with grub(1), and grub2 is just too untested.<br>
<br>
This is a case where a seemingly minor change /can/ have great impact.<br>
All the spins on the media were tested with isolinux as their boot<br>
loader, not with grub. To mass produce something post-release to hand<br>
out at shows using a boot technology that has not been tested during our<br>
development phase (Alpha/Beta/RC) feels extremely irresponsible. From a<br>
releng POV I could not sign off on that, and I apologize that I'm just<br>
now realizing you're using grub, I had assumed it was syslinux like all<br>
the other iso offerings Fedora makes.<br>
</blockquote>Thanks..<br><br>It doesn't matter too much, certainly from mmc's perspective anyway; isolinux.cfg and grub.conf aren't too dissimilar, and its not like we're trying to load different filesystem modules or anything, I just wondered why.<br><br>Grub2 is an entirely different story IMO, and probably outside of the scope of this discussion at least - but I do strongly believe that effort should be put into grub2 (its in the repos after all, just seems to have been left to gather dust)<br><br>I know Christoph has put a deal of effort into this, and I really think its a worthwhile project - so I'm happy to help moving it to isolinux if thats the case, I don't think massive amount of work need to be put in from where it is now.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Dave<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); margin-right: 0px;"><span></span><br>
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Jesse Keating<br>
Fedora -- Freedomē is a feature!<br>
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